Power
URS is a market leader in electric power delivery systems. Our extensive experience with power distribution and system planning encompasses the design of hundreds of power transmission lines, including state-of-the-art, 765kV, high-voltage alternating current and direct current technologies. URS helps clients to bring new facilities online quickly and retrofitting existing ones to meet environmental regulations.
We have brought clean-air solutions to new and operating fossil fuel power plants for over thirty years. Our work in the planning, permitting, design and construction of fossil fuel facilities includes more than 200 coal-fired projects totalling more than 90,000 megawatts worldwide.
URS has extensive experience in the planning and design of transmission and distribution systems, remediation of plant sites, environmental site assessments, regulatory compliance, permitting, licensing and emissions control.
We also offer comprehensive environmental, engineering and construction services to help clients develop efficient, cost-effective alternative fuel and renewable energy systems, including design studies and engineering for an assortment of alternate and renewable energy sources – solar and solar thermal systems, geothermal power, hydropower facilities, wave energy studies, wind farms, biomass projects, municipal solid waste conversion and coal and waste gasification technologies.